I don’t know if many of you remember my post on old DOS games and how easy it is to play them using DOSBox. Well, it may not surprise you that you can easily install DOSBox on FreeBSD. And yes, on FreeBSD you can play all your favorite old DOS games.

Of course, I assume you have a FreeBSD desktop.

Installing DOSBox on FreeBSD

To install from ports, do this:

# #

cd /usr/ports/emulators/dosbox make install

To install from packages do this:

#

pkg_add -r dosbox

Configuring DOSBox on FreeBSD

Create a folder, probably in your home directory but it can be where ever you want, to store your DOS games.

#

mkdir ~/Games/dos

The configuration file is in your home director: ~/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74.conf

Add the following line to the end of the config under the [autoexec] section.

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